Pat, et al, The USGS GNIS site was down this morning, but I have found the places now. Blades Chapel is almost due north of Billings and due west of Republic in Greene County. Brown Springs and Brown Springs School is due north of Hurley and due east from a line between Marionville and Aurora in Stone county. Ross >>> [email protected] 05/20/03 08:29AM >>> Pat and others, The photo is titled "Part of Halltown, Brown Springs, Plano, Round Grove, Blades Chapel, and McKinley Classes of the Parker Music Teachers of Mt. Vernon, Mo., in Concert at Baptist Hill, May 29, 1921" by Hinchey Photo. Halltown, Round Grove, and McKinley, of course, are all in Lawrence Co. Plano is in Greene County about 4 miles due east of Halltown. Blades Chapel may also be in Greene County in Pond Creek Township. Brown Springs is an early name for Siloam Springs in Howell County, but that seems too far away. Can anyone help with the identification of Blades Chapel and Brown Springs? They might be churches rather than towns. I have more sources to check, but someone else may recognize them more quickly. Ross Cameron >>> [email protected] 05/19/03 03:29PM >>> I sent a jpg file to everyone who requested one....I think. If you don't get one today please email me privately and I'll send you one. It is easier to send it to a whole list than one at a time. Hope you all enjoy looking for familiar faces and get back to me with identifications. I will take a copy of the picture to the Lawrence County History Library in Mt. Vernon later this week. Yep, gonna visit the ol' ancestral stompin' ground. Pat, ==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== Whoops! Deleted a message you needed? Search archived messages on this list by entering MOLAWREN-L in the search field at: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== Whoops! Deleted a message you needed? Search archived messages on this list by entering MOLAWREN-L in the search field at: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237